Louise Gleich, our Senior Policy Officer on Human Trafficking responds to a new report that found that more than a quarter of trafficked children went missing from care last year.

Louise spoke to Christian Today about what can be done to address the challenges identified by the report and calls for the government to speed up their plans to roll out specialist independent child trafficking advocates in England and Wales.

"As a priority, we must review how police, social workers and foster carers work together to ensure that child trafficking victims are protected and kept safe; this includes making sure they are placed in appropriate accommodation and working on faster responses to reporting missing children and making sure they are found.

We also urge the government to speed up plans to roll out specialist independent child trafficking advocates – trials have shown that these advocates have played a key part in highlighting potential risks, pushing local authorities to provide safer accommodation, and tracing children who have gone missing."

Read the article in full HERE

Read more about the report HERE